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Deep Learning: A superficial overview Ilan Fridman Rojas, University of Durham Time: 14:00Venue: NTC.1.03 , Colchester Campus UPDATED: An accessible introduction to Deep Learning will be given, from a brief outline of its history, to some of the reasons for its current renaissance. An overview of the types of models it encompasses and their structure, as well as a cursory treatment of what “deep” means in this context and our (currently largely incomplete) understanding of why depth matters will be hinted at. A small selection of some of the intricacies of designing and training deep architectures will be briefly discussed, as this accounts for a significant fraction of current ongoing research. Some successful applications of Deep Learning will be pointed out and lastly, time and technology permitting, functioning code for…